The Denver Broncos are in search of a starting quarterback. Tim Tebow’s a quarterback. Eh? Eh?

One fan started a an online petition on change.org to bring the Mile High Messiah back to the Broncos.

As of 1:55 p.m., more than 5,000 people signed the petition. Currently the Broncos have two quarterbacks signed in Mark Sanchez and Trevor Siemian.

The argument:

The Denver Broncos have lost their two main quarterbacks from their epic 2016 Super Bowl Championship winning season. We need a proven winner to continue to move this team in the right direction. Coach Gary Kubiak’s offense would thrive with Tebow under center. He and the legendary John Elway can make this happen. We dont need a subpar throwaway from some other team, we need an original Bronco who has the fire, desire, and love of the game to play as a Bronco again! As a bonus the Bronco fans would be ecstatic! He just wins, we all know this! #TebowTime

Tebow was a first-round draft pick of the Broncos in 2010. He played two seasons, completing 47.3 percent of his passes for 2,383 yards, 17 touchdowns and nine interceptions.

Peyton Manning is America’s second-favorite quarterback, but surprisingly the man he replaced, Tim Tebow, is fifth despite not being on a regular-season roster since 2012.

Public Policy Polling released a poll Feb. 5 that asked 410 NFL fans who their favorite NFL quarterback was among 10 options. New England’s Tom Brady was first with 23 percent of the votes, followed by Manning (16 percent). Tebow finished with 7 percent, ahead of Ben Roethlisberger, Russell Wilson, Eli Manning and Drew Brees.

March 1: Deadline to designate franchise or transition players is 2 p.m. Franchise tags are one-year fully guaranteed contracts for players set to become free agents.

An “exclusive” franchise player cannot negotiate with other teams. The values for each position are no less than average of the five largest salaries at that position for the current year, or 120 percent of the player’s salary from the previous season — whichever is greater.

A “non-exclusive” franchise player may negotiate with other teams, but the original team has the right to match any offer or receive two first-round draft picks. The values for each position are no less than average of the five largest cap hits at that position from the previous five seasons, or 120 percent of the player’s salary from the previous season — whichever is greater.

A transition tag — worth at least the average of the top 10 salaries at that position the previous season, or 120 percent of the player’s previous salary — guarantees the incumbent team the right of first refusal to match an offer the player receives from another team. If it doesn’t match, the team receives no compensation. Teams are allowed only one franchise tag per season, and transition tags — of which teams are also allowed only one per season — can be used when the franchise tag is not.

The Broncos won’t let outside linebacker Von Miller, the Super Bowl MVP, hit the open market, so they can either give him the franchise tag, with an estimated value of $14.1 million for one year, or sign him to a long-term deal.Read more…

Tebow, 28, performed the “Rocky” anthem “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor on the episode. He faced off against actress Nina Dobrev, who is seen donning a Tebow Gators jersey in the clip.

Tebow was drafted by the Broncos in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft with the 25th pick. He last played for the Eagles in the 2015 preseason but failed to secure a spot after the final round of cuts.

Is it Brocktoberfest? Not quite, but Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler is getting notice.

Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler is featured on the regional cover of the Dec. 2, 2015 issue of Sports Illustrated. (Provided by Sports Illustrated)

A week after he was named the AFC offensive player of the week, the 25-year-old will be gracing the regional cover of this week’s cover of Sports Illustrated, which will be released Wednesday. Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James is on the national cover.

The issue will be available in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming.

According to the SI covers archives, the last time the Broncos were featured on the cover was for the magazine’s Super Bowl XLVIII preview with Peyton Manning.

The Seahawks crushed the Broncos in the championship game. Is there a curse with the magazine cover? A look at Broncos quarterbacks making their first prominent appearance on the SI cover shows some truth to this.

Manning was first featured in a Denver jersey on the Sept. 12, 2012 edition. The Broncos lost 27-21 to Atlanta that week, and Manning threw three interceptions.

Tim Tebow was featured on the Dec. 19, 2011 edition. The Broncos lost to Buffalo in their next game 40-14. Tebow completed just 13 of 29 passes and threw three interceptions.

Jake Plummer was on the cover of the edition leading up to the 2006 AFC title game. The Broncos fell 34-17.

John Elway graced the Aug. 15, 1983 cover, weeks before his regular season debut with the Broncos. The Broncos won 14-10 over Pittsburgh, but the rookie wasn’t much help, completing just 1 of 8 for 14 yards.

Tim Tebow “didn’t look good in practice,” according to his former Broncos teammate Champ Bailey.

On “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” Monday, Bailey was asked by the host who was a player who was a bad practice player but was good at gametime.

Without much hesitation, Bailey answered with Tebow.

“When you tell the scout team to back off of a guy, you know, let him make some plays, make some throws, that’s not a good practice player,” Bailey said. “Most players want to be challenged in practice, like it’s a game.”

Tim Tebow (11) of the Philadelphia Eagles throws a pass in the third quarter of the preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts on Aug. 16, 2015 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. (Mitchell Leff, Getty Images)

Is Tim Tebow the solution for the Dallas Cowboys’ ailing quarterback situation?

After Cowboys starting quarterback Tony Romo went down with an broken clavicle in Sunday’s game against the Eagles, Dallas was left with just one QB on its active roster: Brandon Weeden.

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Tim Tebow (11) looks to pass during warmups before their pre-season game against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on Sept. 3, 2015 in East Rutherford, N.J. (Rich Schultz, Getty Images)

Tim Tebow (11) of the Philadelphia Eagles throws a pass in the third quarter of the preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts on Aug. 16, 2015 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. (Mitchell Leff, Getty Images)

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Tim Tebow debut with the Philadelphia Eagles elicited huge cheers from the hometown crowd. Not bad for a fourth-string quarterback fighting for a roster spot.

Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas and Peyton Manning congratulate each other after the Broncos victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-19 on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)

The Patriots’ allegedly deflated footballs have had no affect on Tom Brady’s popularity in retail stores. The New England quarterback was the retail champion on the NFL Players’ Association’s Top 50 list in sales for the first quarter of the 2016 fiscal year.

The list, released by NFL Players Inc., the marketing and licensing arm of the NFLPA, is based on total sales of all officially licensed merchandise from March 1-May 31, 2015.

Peyton Manning, who was No. 1 on the list following the third fiscal quarter of last year, fell four spots to No. 5, behind quarterbacks Colin Kaepernick (No. 2), Russell Wilson (3) and Aaron Rodgers (4). Demaryius Thomas, who last week signed a five-year, $70 million contract with the Broncos, capped the list at No. 50.

Tim Tebow, who hasn’t played an NFL snap since January 2012 and isn’t a lock to play another this season with the Eagles, came in at No. 31.

Quarterback Tim Tebow #15 of the Denver Broncos drops back to pass during the preseason NFL game against the Arizona Cardinals at the University of Phoenix Stadium on Sept. 1, 2011 in Glendale, Ariz. (Christian Petersen, Getty Images)

Want to get that Tim Tebow Philadelphia Eagles jersey, but you’re afraid he’ll get cut or released before the season’s over? Fear not.

Schuylkill Valley Sports, a Pennsylvania-based sporting goods chain, offers an “NFL Traded Player Insurance” for $10 that gives buyers the ability to buy a new NFL jersey for half the retail price if the player’s jersey they bought is traded or released. Plus, you can keep the jersey to add your glorious Tebow collection (Gotta catch ’em all — four teams down, 28 to go).

Eagles quarterback Mark Sanchez — now reunited with his former New York Jets teammate Tim Tebow — said that he was told the team signed Tebow as a camp arm.

“He’s obviously a great guy, he works hard,” Sanchez told CSN Philadelphia. “We needed another guy to throw while Sam’s still recovering, so that’s the reason there, at least as it was explained to me. So we’re excited about the upcoming year and I think we have a great group.”

The Broncos drafted Demaryius Thomas and Tim Tebow in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)

On April 30, the Broncos will select their first of 10 draft picks for 2015. They have one first-round selection, No. 28 overall, and as The Post’s Broncos experts, Mike Klis and Troy Renck, have projected, Denver could try to trade up, or it may a right tackle to bolster its offensive line.

But almost exactly five years ago (April 22, 2010), the Broncos were armed with two first-round selections, thanks to some draft-day trades, and they took players at key offensive positions — players whose futures were debated from Day 1 and whose careers have taken very different paths over the last half-decade.

At No. 22, the Broncos took Demaryius Thomas, a receiver out of Georgia Tech (instead of Dez Bryant, whom Dallas took at No. 24). At No 25, they selected Tim Tebow, a Heisman-winning quarterback and two-time national champion out of Florida.

Longtime NFL kicker Jay Feely called newly signed Eagles quarterback Tim Tebow “the single worst quarterback I saw in my career” on “The Jim Rome Show,” which will air Wednesday.

Feely remembered playing the Denver Broncos during his days with Arizona and recalled watching Tebow in a drill.

Jay Feely on “The Jim Rome Show”:

I really respect the person, the man, the things that he believes in and the things he does off the field. He’s was the single worst quarterback I saw in my career in the NFL. Like I watched him one day, I sat and watched him do routes on air with Ken Whisenhunt as we were playing the Broncos. And routes on air, there’s no DBs, you know exactly what he’s going to run, there’s no pass rush. He had like 13 incompletions in routes on air. Jim, we could go out and do routes on air and we would complete most of our passes.

Tim Tebow led the Broncos to six straight victories to help them to the AFC West title in 2011. (John Leyba/The Denver Post)

It can’t be a coincidence that as the NFL gets ready to adopt a rule change that should increase the number of two-point attempts, the Philadelphia Eagles are signing former Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

Eagles coach Chip Kelly loved going for two points during his coaching days at Oregon. He knows Tebow can be a two-point specialist if nothing else.

Bring back the jump pass!

The NFL, at its owners meetings May 18-20 in San Francisco, is expected to amend its extra-point rules for the 2015 season. The proposal that seemed to have the most traction as the owners, coaches and top executives adjourned from their league meetings last month in Phoenix: Move the one-point extra point back 13 yards to a 33-yard kick and nudge the two-point conversion in a half-yard from the 2-yard line to the 1 1/2.

During Tebow’s two-year term with the Broncos, in 2010-11, I often proposed that coaches Josh McDaniels and John Fox should go for two every time. It was not unrealistic to expect the multi-option Tebow to convert three of four, two-pointers in a game for six points. Make four of four kicks and it’s four points.

Tebow rushed for four touchdowns of 2 yards or less in his two Bronco seasons and was two-of-two in two-point rushing attempts during his magical 2011 season.

Ordinarily, I’d say Tebow’s chances of claiming an Eagles’ season-opening roster spot are remote. But if the league adopts a two-point conversion enhancement next month, his chances increase.

The last time Tim Tebow threw a touchdown pass, he found Demaryius Thomas for an 80-yard score in overtime of a 29-23 wild-card victory against the Steelers at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Jan. 8, 2012.

More than three years after his famous pass, Tebow will reportedly get a chance to throw another TD.

The former Broncos quarterback, who is still hoping to make an NFL comeback, posted a photo on his Instagram account of him and Manny Pacquiao, with the message” “Awesome being with my Filipino and Christian brother emmanuelpacquiao #inspiration.”

Pacquiao, who is training for his May 2 megafight against Floyd Mayweather, had been sparring with Kenneth Sims Jr., who also posted a photo with Tebow after their session in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Tebow has made it known that he’s been eager to get back in the league, and over the last couple of years, he’s worked out with former Major League pitcher Tom House to improve his technique.

House was on The Sports Show last week to discuss Tebow’s drive to land an NFL roster spot — and what held him back when he was a pro.

“Everyone who worked with Tim helped him in the short term, but he didn’t have a chance to get enough repetition to actually facilitate a change,” House said on the show. “I think this time he has. The numbers are there. He’s probably had 10,000 reps. He’s been working out with us on a regular basis for a couple of years.”

House said that helping Tebow with his accuracy and spin was “easy to fix” but refused to make any claims about the quarterback’s decision-making, something he was faulted for in his short time in the NFL.

A photo posted by Waste Management Phoenix Open (@wmphoenixopen) on Jan 28, 2015 at 3:56pm PST

… and is still built like a pro wrestler.

His latest victory? He won the par-3 celebrity challenge, with Patrick Reed, at the Phoenix Open pro-am on Wednesday by nailing a tee shot on the 16th hole. Tebow won $40,000 for his shot, which will go to the Tim Tebow Foundation.

Nicki Jhabvala is a Broncos beat writer for The Denver Post. She was previously the digital news editor for sports. Before arriving in Denver, she spent five years at Sports Illustrated working primarily as its online NBA editor. She also spent two years as a home page editor at the New York Times.